A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.